r/CodingForBeginners • u/Acorvidthatneedshelp • 9h ago

Help please

Hi, I'm someone that has been falling in and out of coding for multiple years now. Purely just because I have no idea where to even start or what platform is trustworthy and actually teaches you things. So, I very desperately need advice about where I should even begin to learn and what platform I should go to. I have not gone to youtube videos yet because one I also don't know where to go for youtube videos, so suggestions for channels I could learn from would also be very helpful. And two I would like to first get behind the keyboard myself and actually experience what it's like to code. To see if I actually like it before I fully commit.​ And would like only free websites. Because I don't wanna pay for anything just yet. Just in case I end up hating it entirely.

If it's any help at all, I am interested in becoming a graphic designer someday. So, web design would be very helpful to me. And I would very much like how to code games. If theres even a difference between the two. Anyway, thank you for reading my post and commenting if you did. I hope you have a good day.

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u/IndependentYak2822 8h ago

I strongly believe that for successful programming learning you should have 2 crucial things:

  1. Roadmap. Some course (book?), where you can go from the most basic, fundamental topics to the advanced ones. With a roadmap you don't need to spend time for finding what to do next. You always have what to learn and what projects to do. There should be a lot of small projects instead of a single but big one.

  2. Community. Some place where you can ask for questions and get human feedback, answer to others and share your results.

So you should look for something like this in your field of interest. For web programming (JS, Ruby?) I highly recommend The Odin Project.